Neil Conway said: > I don't think anything mentioned in this thread so far would be an > enormous improvement over what we have now. However, I am still open to > trying Arch or SVN: in the long run, I think the productivity gain > from even an incremental improvement in the development toolset is > worth a little effort in relearning and migration. >
ISTM what we have here is a solution in search of a problem. When the committers tell us that there is a problem we should start looking. > But as I said, I don't think it's a critical issue, and if other > developers would rather we stick with what we have, that's fine with > me. > Maybe we should look at providing SVN as a project option on the new PGFoundry. That might let at least a part of the community get its toes wet with it, without disrupting the core in the first instance. > > I think the lack of good Win32 support (unless rectified before the > release of 7.5) is a pretty major problem with Arch -- that alone might > be sufficient to prevent us from adopting it. > Agreed. It's a killer from my POV. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings